Elevated Lipids and Risks of Illness

[AllGoodHere]

How many members on the forum have elevated lipids (cholesterol, LDL, triglycerides?) Unfortunately, I’ve been reading medical publications again. Some very interesting links that I have found in these papers include associations between: high serum lipids and sciatica, hypercholesterolemia and carpal tunnel syndrome, neuropathy patients at risk for hyperglycemia and metabolic syndrome with lipid abnormalities particularly prevalent, hypertriglyceridemia and PN in neurologically asymptomatic patients. There were a few I couldn’t read (a few in Japanese and also too much terminology to wade through in others) - 4 was about all I could take without an espresso in my hand. There’s a lot out there on this stuff (search PubMed).You may ask yourself….what brought me to this obsessive behavior? Well, another one of those coincidences. I’ve been taking some supplements (as mentioned before) and I stopped before my last blood test; I felt worse (symptoms increased). I felt better upon resuming but of course I take 3 so didn’t know which it was. Then I ran out of the lecithin and kept up the others and again felt worse. Hmmmm – so started doing research on lecithin, acetylcholine (a neurotransmitter that it produces), and what the medical community sees these supplements as useful for – which lead to high cholesterol and the papers above. What do you think? I have high cholesterol (congenital since I am not overweight, eat very few animal fats, almost no refined sugars.) I am wondering if there is a connection (as indicated in the medical publications) in this and pnhe. In the carpal tunnel one they actually found median nerve enlargement to be a factor as it increase the ‘volume of the carpal tunnel contents.” That made me think of Krackersones, with her enlarged nerves on her feet.Tell me if you have high cholesterol , etc. What part of this makes sense to you? I'm not in medicine so all of you that are, tell me if I'm obviously off and not following the facts correctly (none of the subjects were on statins - supposedly statins can cause some PN and there's alot of papers on that connection also).

 

[Krackersones]

I'm seeing the neuro again tomorrow so I'll try to remember to ask about other explanation for my hypertrophic nerves. I had my cholesterol done in October with all the other tests and it was at 199. I think 200 is high. I do eat a high fat diet. Lots of cheese, butter, desserts, etc. I drink a lot of milk too but usually only fat free. I am not that overweight despite my diet. I am 5'5'' and 130 lbs.

 

[AllGoodHere]

Sooo none of you have high cholesterol? Amazing! Especially when the estimates are that 90-102 million in just the states have it. I must be an anomaly.I knew I should have gone with a catchier post title! Should I change it to YOUR DIET IS CAUSING YOUR TWITCHES! or FEAR OF TWITCHES LOCATED IN FATTY TISSUE! or HELP ME! NOT LONG TO LIVE.....of course this could be the case if I don't bring my levels down. Somebody come up with a sensational title and I'll edit it. Really, I scheduled a 'forum break' after this week and hoped to at least see some response before my hiatus and now I'm thinking hmmmm......

 

[MarioMasher]

I have had borderline high cholesterol for years, but I only started twitching this past summer. So I didn't think there was much of a link. My cholesterol is actually much lower now than it was 2 years ago, but I have far more twitching. Who knows, maybe cholesterol prevents twitches. I need to eat more cheese sticks. )